Word: iseult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FAMOUS TRAGEDY OF THE QUEEN OF CORNWALL - Thomas Hardy-MacmiUan ($3.50). Mr. Hardy treats the legend of Tristram and Iseult characteristically. His emphasis is on the sweeping, almost cosmic tragedy of inevitable love. The strange beauty of the legend takes on new meaning under the sharp observation of Hardy. The medievalism of the legend is caught in its form-a "play for mummers, without scenery...
...with its burthen and repetend its flash and glitter and panoply of words, its haunting tonalities, our poet is peculiarly happy. Not that we deny his virtuosity. Mr. Benet can turn from Two Visions of Helen to Italy of the 16th century, hover for a beautiful moment on the Iseult legend, and bob up at 8.30 A. M. on 32nd street all in the space of 2 hours and 97 pages! But and we risk monotony the ballad is his measure...
...Dragon" is a delightful medley of old Celtic folk tales, Gilbert and Sullivan successes and the finished dramatic technique and the kindly human sympathy conspicuous in Lady Gregory's works. In its reminiscence of old tales, it suggests at once parts of that great mediaeval romance, "Tristram and Iseult...